From Elise Bauer of Simple Recipes (California)
Oh how I envy those "blossoming sweet peas"! Sweet peas are my favourite flowers, and they are still very far from "blossoming" here in Germany! In fact, the little plants from last year's seeds still sit on my window sill waiting to be transferred into garden soil once it is safe enough ...

Snow Peas with Pine Nuts and Mint
Spring has sprung here in Northern California. The sweet peas are blossoming, the snap peas are climbing, and I have peas on my brain! Today I had a hankering for snow peas and cooked up a bunch this afternoon just for the heck of it. There are so many ways to prepare snow peas, the only thing you really don't want to do is to over-cook them. This is a simple stir-fry with pine nuts, garlic, sesame oil, and a little mint. What's your favorite snow peas recipe?
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From Heidi Swanson of 101cookbooks (California)
This sounds like a great spring brunch dish indeed, I will sure try it out in the next couple of weeks, but I am not sure if I will make it for Easter ... My sons will be home from universities, and one of them is a vegetarian, so although this is a vegetarian recipe alright I doubt if he (and his brother, too) will like it. They are not so great fans of asparagus. I am, though, and I will enjoy this dish on some other Sunday with my husband and maybe some friends.

Savory Asparagus Bread Pudding
Flipping through my friend Ann's new cookbook the other night, I stumbled on a delicious-sounding bread pudding recipe - Savory Asparagus Bread Pudding. It looked perfect for Spring, perfect for brunch, and if I were looking for something to add to my Easter recipe repertoire (which I'm not, but I'm sure some of you are), this looked compelling. A seasonal, family-style recipe where nearly all the prep can be done the day or night before.
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